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David Lilienthal

Speaker: David E. LilienthalDate: June 18, 1969DescriptionDirector of the Tennessee Valley Authority since 1933; chairman (1941-1946). Chairman of the U.S. A.E.C. (1946-1950). Chairman of the U.S. State Department Board of Counselors on International Control of Atomic Energy (1946-1950). Discusses his early association with Lyndon Johnson and the study that President Johnson asked him to undertake on the postwar development of Vietnam.